Figure 1.
Geometry of the problem.
Table 1.
Nomenclature.
Table 2.
Numerical values of the thermophysical properties.
Figure 2.
Pressure gradient for variation in nanoparticle volume fraction when
and
Figure 3.
Pressure gradient for variation in channel inclination angle when
and
Figure 4.
Pressure gradient for variation in Grashoff number when
and
Figure 5.
Pressure gradient for variation in velocity slip parameter when
and
Figure 6.
Pressure rise per wavelength for change in nanoparticle volume fraction when
and
Figure 7.
Pressure rise per wavelength for change in channel inclination when
and
Figure 8.
Pressure rise per wavelength for change in Grashoff number when
and
Figure 9.
Pressure rise per wavelength for change in velocity slip parameter when ,
,
and
Figure 10.
Axial velocity for different nanoparticle volume fraction when
and
Figure 11.
Axial velocity for different Grashoff numbers when
and
Figure 12.
Axial velocity for different inclination angles when
and
Figure 13.
Axial velocity for different values of velocity slip parameter when
and
Figure 14.
Behavior of streamlines for variation in nanoparticle volume fraction when
and
Figure 15.
Behavior of streamlines for variation in channel inclination when
and
Figure 16.
Behavior of streamlines for variation in velocity slip parameter when
and
Figure 17.
Temperature profile for different nanoparticle volume fractions when
and
Figure 18.
Temperature profile for variation in Grashoff number when
and
Figure 19.
Temperature profile for variation in channel inclination angle when
and
Figure 20.
Temperature profile for variation in velocity slip parameter when
and
Figure 21.
Temperature profile for variation in thermal slip parameter when
and
Figure 22.
Change in heat transfer rate at the wall for variation in nanoparticle volume fraction
and
Figure 23.
Comparison of heat transfer rate at the wall of water and Cu-water nanofluid for change in heat source/sink parameter when
and
Figure 24.
Comparison of heat transfer rate at the wall of water and Cu-water nanofluid for change in Grashoff number when
and
Figure 25.
Comparison of heat transfer rate at the wall of water and Cu-water nanofluid for change in Brinkman number when
and
Table 3.
Numerical values of heat transfer rate at the wall for change in the values of different parameters when
and
.
Table 4.
Comparison of present study with the results obtained by obtained by Ali et al [28] when and